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Juan Gabriel Vasquezbooks include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana.

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Bound for Glory

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First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America’s Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.

One of Guthrie’s first published writings, it is an important artifact of musical and political history, and a precedent for Guthrie’s long lost novel, House of Earth, to be published in 2013 and edited by Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley.

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Foreword: “So Long, Woody, It’s Been Good to Know Ya” by Pete Seeger

A Tribute to Woody Guthrie by Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior

I. Soldiers in the DustII. Empty Snuff CansIII. I Ain’t Mad at NobodyIV. New KittensV. Mister CycloneVI. BoomchasersVII. Cain’t No Gang Whip Us NowVIII. Fire ExtinguishersIX. A Fast-Running Train Whistles DownX. The Junking SackXI. Boy in Search of SomethingXII. Trouble BustingXIII. Off to CaliforniaXIV. The House on the HillXV. The Telegram that Never CameXVI. Stormy NightXVII. Extra SelectsXVIII. CrossroadsXIX. Train Bound for Glory